Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Modern and Contemporary Art | March 2008

213 Education 1930-1 Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta (studied Painting under Kshitindranath Majumdar and Sculpture under Shri Giridhari Maharana, a hereditary carver from Orissa) 1938 Studied Sculpture under Prof. R. Wlerick at Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris & Stone Carving at the Atelier of M. Victor Giovanelli Select Teaching and Infrastructure-building Activities 1935-7 School Teacher, Bengal 1940-2 Lecturer in Art and Craft, Teachers’ Training Department, University of Calcutta 1943-5 Lecturer in Sculpture, Art Department, Delhi Polytechnic 1956 Principal, Government College of Arts & Craft, Kolkata 1960-1 Worked on Restoration of Paintings under the Directorate General des Musees de France under a French Government Scholarship Keeper, Art Gallery, Indian Museum, Calcutta Select Solo Exhibitions 1936 Paintings, Calcutta 1938 New Delhi Paintings, Grand Salon, Paris 1944-5 Painting and Sculpture, New Delhi 1946 Paintings, Paris Paintings, London 1948-58 Regular Showings at the Royal Academy, London 1948-50 Royal Society of British Artists, London 1950 Sculpture, Painting and Ceramics, Gallerie des Garets, France 1952 Sculpture, London 1954 Sculpture and Painting, New Delhi 1964 Sculpture and Drawing, New Delhi 1970-71 New Delhi 1975 Retrospective, Calcutta 1985 Retrospective Exhibition 1930–85, The Indian Museum, Calcutta (1–21 November) 1993 Sculptures and Drawings, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (19 April–12 May) 1995 Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (25 February–13 March) 1996 Retrospective: Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Gaganendra Chitra Pradarshasala, Calcutta (6–15 March) 1997 Recent Sculptures in Terracotta and Bronze, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Calcutta (3–12 March) 1999 Retrospective, A Few Souvenirs of The Time Was, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata (14–22 April) CHINTAMONI KAR b. 19 April1915 Kharagpur, West Bengal Select Awards and Honours 1948 Silver Medal and Diploma, Sport in Art, XIVth Olympiad, London 1974 Padmabhushan, Govt. of India 1983 Conferred Fellowship Emeritus, Govt. of India 1986 Hony. Ph.D (Literature), Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta 2004 Lalit Kala Ratna Puruskar, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (9 August) Member, Royal Society of British Sculptors, London. Member, International Institution for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, London. Visited USSR, Mongolia, East Germany and Romania on Cultural Exchange Programme Selected Collections ❖ Central Museum, Lahore ❖ Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata ❖ Chintamoni Kar Museum, Government of West Bengal ❖ Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh ❖ Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (Russia) ❖ Leningrad, St. Petersburg ❖ Lidice Museum (Czechoslavakia) ❖ Lok Shabha, New Delhi ❖ Ministry of Fine Arts, Bucharest (Romania) ❖ National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi ❖ Osian’s Archive and Library Collection ❖ Parliament House, New Delhi ❖ Punjab Museum, Chandigarh ❖ Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta